LO1 - Report on Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz was an American Photographer born October 2 nd , 1949, her father was in the military and her mother was a dancer. She was well known for “dramatic, quirky, and iconic portraits of a great variety of celebrities”. She initially was set on becoming a painter however that changed after she “quickly became engrossed” in becoming a photographer after taking a night class in photography. She was fond and popular for taking photos of celebrities, her first job being to take shots of John Lennon for a Rolling Stones magazine. She would often spend days observing her subjects in their daily lives and worked to make the portraits “unique and witty “each being a “technically exquisite distillation” This image is of Kendrick Lamar, in this there is a projection of a photo used on the cover of a Vanity Fair magazine, this is used to be projected over him standing casually against a wall, this shot therefor is clearly staged and shot in a very simple style. From looking at other
